About Mihnea Cătuți

Mihnea Cătuți is the Executive Director of the Energy Policy Group (EPG), an independent energy and climate think tank in Bucharest, where he coordinates the research strategy of a team of around 30 researchers. His expertise covers EU climate and energy policy, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), industrial decarbonisation, and the energy transition in Central and South-East Europe.

He is also a Senior Associate at E3G, working on industrial decarbonisation, and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Bucharest. Previously, Mihnea was an Associate Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), leading its work on the future of hydrogen in the EU, and an Associate Lecturer at the University of York.

He holds a PhD from York on EU energy and climate governance, an MA in European Public Policy from the University of York and Central European University (CEU), and a BSc from the University of Bristol.